You could argue that this is intentional, that by stripping everything back players are forced to focus on the main narrative (and Square Enix itself has claimed this), but the fact is that this long stretch simply isn't fun, and accompanied by an omnipresent villainous voiceover which regularly repeats lines, the whole sequence feels rather rushed and cheap - an afterthought to the lush,
exciting open plains of Leide and Duscae.
Opening an app with a swipe of your finger is still
exciting tech, but it's convoluted and just
plain inconvenient on the One Max.